Agricultural mechanism; or, a display of the several properties, and powers, of the vehicles, implements, and Machinery, connected with husbandry.

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[3], vi-xiii, [1], 311pp, [1]. Without half-title. With 20 engraved plates. Bound for Richard Gregory in contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, joints starting. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Richard Gregory to FEP, with his ownership inscription to p.1 and a single note in his hand to foot of p.195. With four loosely inserted printed invitations, addressed to Gregory, for the Society for the Envouragement of Arts, Manusfactures, and Commerce. The sole edition of Thomas Williamson's (1758-1817) authoritative treatise on farming machinery, including wheelbarrows, ploughs, rollers, cutters, cultivators, and drills. Richard Gregory (1761-1839) of Coole, Ireland, graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, honorary member of the Board of Agriculture, and book collector. In her elegy for the Gregory family, Coole (1931), Irish playwright Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) writes of Richard Gregory that he was a: 'true lover of books. He is the one of my forerunners I feel most drawn to. His romantic elopement, his fabled riches, make still the kernel of folk stories in Kiltartan; but the books that fill so many shelves are his best memorial here [at Coole]. Many of the books hold his notes, or little paragraphs cut out of newspapers bearing on the subject of the page, or an engraving to add interest to its contents. I think that since old romantic Richard I am the possessor who has best loved them. For Robert [her husband], who housed them, had so many living interests. that he cannot have needed their companionship as did Richard, who having left the army and having married under a cloud, had no public life, I think no intimates. I shall be sorry to leave all these volumes among which I have lived. They have felt the pressure of my fingers. They have been my friends.' Size: 8vo. N° de ref. del artículo AQ20920

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